April 2010
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“Late last year Apple finally got permission from South Korea’s telecoms...”
– South Korea’s industrial giants: Return of the overlord in The Economist.
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Get out of town
hueandsaturation:
I finally found my stamp collection. Above is one of my favorites. Designed by Paulo Guilherme in 1963 for the 10th anniversary of TAP, Portuguese Airlines.
[This is good]
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“The dumbing down of the American automobile has provided for people with passion...”
– Ben Ward: The iPad is not a car
The quote sums up the (probably overlong) post pretty well, but if you don’t know about cars, it might be worth a read. Personally, as someone who doesn’t drive, I wish people would stop using the lazy (and, as Ben points out, often troublesome) car...
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“Is it locking everything down or opening things up? (I don’t know what to think....”
– styledeficit on the iPad.
My take? The publishers want it to be CD-ROMs. They want it to save their businesses. It might, but I wouldn’t bet on it, and anyway, that’s not what’s interesting. What everyone else does - the everyone else that built so much of the content on the web...
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“an augmented reality lens from NASA that lets you hold the thing up to the sky...”
– Xeni Jardin in her review of Apple’s iPad.
That does sound like a good app, but you know what? 90% of the time, the ISS is actually beneath your feet. (Planets are weird.)
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“For those of you blessed with senile amnesia or youth, CD-ROMs were the first...”
– Danny O’Brien: cd-roms and ipads. And that’s just the introduction to an amusing and insightful post.
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“I probably shouldn’t say the whole storyline. It’s not really apparent in the...”
– Carey Mulligan, interviewed on Collider.com. The previous paragraph gives away the premise of Never Let Me Go, the film (adapted from the Kazio Ishiguro novel) in which she stars next.
For me, that process Mulligan describes - not quite understanding the world in a book, but discovering what it is...
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No Radar For You
Met Office : Invent - High resolution radar data trial:
Thank you very much for your interest in the high resolution radar data trial which is now completed. You can continue to receive the latest weather radar rainfall data via www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar.
On the day of Tumblr’s radar gags, this feels a little ironic.
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For One Day Only: #2lmc Spool Return (Kinda)
blech: http://husk.org/misc/2lmc/tumblr-dashboard-radar-joke.png # annoyingly, this is the first time I've actually wanted to click through and it doesn't work
tominsam: http://www.tumblr.com/images/april/radar3.png
blech: http://www.tumblr.com/images/april/radar5.png
tominsam: http://www.tumblr.com/images/april/radar6.png # errrrrr (though url hacking)
blech: tominsam: M*A*S*H
tominsam: oh, right.
blech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_O'Reilly
namer: [ Radar O'Reilly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]
tominsam: wait wait wait.
blech: I bet you never realised that blog's URL was a pun, did you?
tominsam: headdesk
blech: \o/
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March 2010
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